the hut upon the mountain

Mary Shelley knows from experience of what she writes. There were actually
two such huts on Montanvert above
the Sea of Ice, one made of wood and erected by an Englishman named Blair
in 1779, and the other of
stone constructed by a Frenchmen, Desportes, in the year 1795.

In this early ninteenth-century romantic vista of the Mer de Glace
only the Desportes hut is visible, but the illustration shows how
prominent an intrusion this human imposition made upon an otherwise
sublime landscape.

from William Beattie, Switzerland, illustrated in a series of views
taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett, Esq., Volume 1
(London: G. Virtue, 1836).